Well, generally another good week.

On Monday, Michelle (the temporary support worker) was due to come and take kp shopping to get all the ingredients for a meal and then make me a meal on the night. I was looking forward to the first meal cooked by kp in as long as I can remember. The idea was she would think the whole thing through, pick a recipe, get the ingredients and then attempt its preparation.

Unfortunately, Michelle fell ill and couldn’t make it, but kp was adamant she wanted to continue with the day as planned. Which we did, me taking the role of support worker and not doing the typical husband thing and doing everything for her. It’s quite hard to do, because if she is struggling with something, my first reaction is to step in and sort it.

So, she picked a meal (Pasta with a Bolognese Sauce) and we set off to Sainsburys to get all the goods. One of the things that I think has helped kp’s mood (aside the new anti-depressants and the increased dose of the old ones) is having some goals and one of her current goals is to “refresh” the living room. She has a theme that Adele has helped her with and she wanted to go to places like Rosebys, Asda Living and Next to see what she could get.

She got lots of things she wanted, but some things required to be ordered online at Next, because they were out of stock in the store. Then, to Sainsburys, to get all the ingredients.

All going swimmingly so far.

When we got back, she cooked the tea and my help was minimal (chopping onions and some help with timing advice). Aside from that, she did the whole thing and it was a nice treat.

After tea, she tried to go online to sort the remainder of the Next home furnishings, but it didn’t go too well. So, she phoned them up, but during the call got very confused as to what she had ordered. She came off the phone in tears, frustrated that she hadn’t been able to understand where she was upto. Very sad !

While I remember, there was a slight cockup with her trip to Roseby’s as well. We have 3 windows in the lounge which she wanted to get tiebacks for the curtains and she came away with 3 tie-backs (when we needed 2 for each window). She was annoyed with herself to say the least.

Anyhoo, she quickly got over the Next episode. Sleep still remains a problem, although is slightly improve because of the sedative effect of the Dolsolupin.

Tuesday saw Rachel (OT) come over. Together, they set more goals and Rachel is typing them up for kp. Michelle came to take Karen over to Steve’s gym (physio) where she did her longest time yet on the treadmill (40 minutes). Well done kp.

Wednesday, kp had booked a hair appointment, which I took her to. Unfortunately, the hairdresser was off sick, so she just got her nails done and rescheduled an appointment for Saturday lunchtime.

On the afternoon, we had planned to go and see one of kp’s ex-work collegaues, pretend-friend Deborah (in-joke). She had just had an operation, so it was kp’s turn to be the supportive friend after Deborah (and Lydia) did such a sterling job when kp was in th’ospital. It was lovely to see Deborah and we had a good catchup and gossip.

Here are kp and Deborah…………..

Thursday, Michelle came to take kp over to Steve’s Gym, where she tried a new wobbleboard which she said was a lot trickier than the old one, which was bloody hard in itself. Whilst she was doing that, I took Marie (kp’s sister) to pick up Strike and introduce him to Tye.

That went very well indeed and they got on great. On the way back from Steve’s, Michelle took kp to pick up the missing tie-backs.

Friday and I took Karen for her appointment with Jane at the Lansdowne Clinic. Jane was very pleased with how well kp was doing and together, we made the decision that kp should take a 4-6 week break from psychologist visits and “consolidate”. I read that, as enjoy being up for a while. A good decision with the next appointment not until December.

Saturday and kp and I had arranged to go to walk the dogs together, because for various reasons, we hadn’t been able to go together for a few weeks. Unfortunately, we had forgot about her hairdressers appointment. There was a bit of a heated debate about that, but she cancelled it so she could walk the dogs.

Pizza and X-Factor finished the day off.

Today (Sunday), kp is on the way to see Veronica (in London). Michelle (Support Worker) is going down with her (on the train) and will come back on a later train. She will then go and pick her up on Wednesday when she returns which is great. We had considered Karen doing it solo, I could put her on the train, and vd would be there to pick her up, but if the train was delayed or anything went wrong, kp would be very frightened, so we are playing it safe.

She isn’t having it totally easy though. The plan is for Michelle to leave kp on her own for a while on the train to see how she copes, so it’s a good test at the same time. Fingers crossed.

So, good week, sleep still to pot, but kp very upbeat and looking forward to seeing vd in London.